Taking A Week Off From Blogging

Friday, September 5, 2014

Hello folks!

I just wanted to let you ladies and gents know that I will be taking the next seven days off from blogging because I’ve got an official training coming up for my new job at the beginning of next week, which will last several days, so I need to focus my time and energy on work-related stuff right now.

I am very much enjoying this new position and have been welcomed aboard by the rest of the staff with open arms and excitement. Everyone there is very happy for me, which makes me happy as well.

For the past week, I’ve been learning lots of new procedures and responsibilities and absorbing them like a sponge. I love to learn, so it's gotten my brain cells all active and bouncing around like ping pong balls.

I will also be using this week for some R&R and getting together with a few friends who I haven't seen in awhile because everyone has been so busy over the summer.

I leave you with six photographs I took (a few of which you may have already seen) with some inspirational quotes I found online, which I overlaid. These are words I find to be very true, so I wanted to share them with you...

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All the captions are brilliant, Ron, and they match the pictures perfectly. You sound so happy about your new position and especially the learning side of it. Good luck with it, and have a happy week xx

I'm happy to hear that you are enjoying the new job and learning so much! Hey, if I can take an 8 month break, you're certainly entitled to a week. ;)Enjoy the training, the R&R, and time with friends. Sounds like a busy, and rewarding, week. All the photos (eh, okay, I don't love billboards) are great and the quotes totally go. They are easy enough to understand, but sometimes so hard to actually do! Right?! LOL

Have a wonderful week, my friend! These quotes really hit home as I am struggling right now at my employment. I don't feel I am benefiting them or myself. I'm awash in negativity that is eating at me. So....Nothing happens until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change....yes. Exactly where I am and neither feels good, but I know it will all be okay. You are an inspiration! Thank you!

Oh Ronnie breaks are the most heart breaking for me! I look in my email every blogging day for my lovely words from you! But distance makes the heart grow fonder- right? Anyways I loved the pictures you left us with especially the one that says "you are a work in progress' really speaks to where I am in my life.

Ron, in as much as you will missed for the next week, I understand your taking a break to focus your attention on your new gig. Hope the training goes well and I'm glad that you'll also be spending time catching up friends and taking time for yourself to relax.

As always, your photographs are beautiful and the quotes are truly inspiring. Loved the second one especially. I read it a few times.

"These quotes really hit home as I am struggling right now at my employment. I don't feel I am benefiting them or myself. I'm awash in negativity that is eating at me. So....Nothing happens until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change....yes. Exactly where I am and neither feels good, but I know it will all be okay."

You said it....ALL we be okay!

And I chose these quotes specifically because of a challenge I went through over the summer. And I ironically, like you, it had to do with my place of employment and getting another job. So keep the faith, my friend. It will all be okay!

Oh geeze.....they made me teary, but in a good way. I'm so pleased for you, tossing yourself into the deep end of the pool and swimming. Proud, actually. Pretty sure your mom is, too.I love the sunflower, and the quote about making a stumble part of the dance.I need to absorb all the wisdom you have here. And just celebrate for you.I think we should have cake and balloons and confetti and noise makers and BUBBLES!!! :-)

Thank you, Mel. And it's ironic you mentioned my mom because one of my dear friends here in Philly told me that when I shared with her about the 'dragonfly' visiting me over the summer, thought that it was a sign sent from my mother that everything would work out. And I think she was right about that.

"and the quote about making a stumble part of the dance."

Yup...I love that quote too! Isn't it awesome? Make the stumbles part of the DANCE.

"I think we should have cake and balloons and confetti and noise makers and BUBBLES!!! :-)"

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay....BUBBLES!!! Thank you so much for your support, encouragement and love.

This weekend and next week will be a time of learning a lot of new things about my new job, so I wanted to take the next week off to focus all my time and energy on that. Plus, it was the perfect opportunity to meet up with a few friends and catch up because we've all been busy over the summer.

Glad you enjoyed the quotes. They really hit home for me and found them to be true, so I wanted to share them with you all.

Have a great rest of your weekend and thanks so much for stopping by. I'll see ya next Friday!

I adore each and every photo and the quotes to go along with them! It is NUTS how busy things have been lately! Hoping for a few R&R days myself! Enjoy your time off Ron and I am THRILLED you are enjoying your new venture! Xo Jeanne

"It is NUTS how busy things have been lately! Hoping for a few R&R days myself!"

Yes, this past summer and few weeks have busy for so many people. I am so looking forward to fall and cooler weather. This past week has been unusually warm and humid, however today we got a break and it feels so good!

Hope you get some R&R as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great week and I'll see ya on Friday!

Well, I don't know about being "balanced" because sometimes I feel so UN-balanced - HA!

However, with so much going on with my new job (and the training) I thought it would be good to take a little break from blogging to focus on my work, get together with a few friends, and also take time for some R & R.

Thanks a bunch for stopping by, girl. Have a faaaaaaaabulous week and I'll see ya on Friday!

Just wonderful Ron! I love the one about the book/chapters most of all, SO true. I wish you much success with your new job. And thanks for the encouragement too recently, about my latest pursuits, it helped/meant a lot. :-)

Boy do I need to remember and re-read the quotes if I forget, which I do. Work in progress that I am, I need to hang on to the joys of today as things unfold.Which is why I'm ignoring the 2" of snow they got at my vacation destination and thinking warm thoughts. *laughing* I mighta intended that pun.Take care. Hope the week away brought you awesome things.